Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.143, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 143 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.
Verse 2.5.143
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.143:
এক হস্তে যেন বিপ্র-চরণ পাখালে আর হস্তে ঢেলা মারে মাথায, কপালে ॥ ১৪৩ ॥
एक हस्ते येन विप्र-चरण पाखाले आर हस्ते ढेला मारे माथाय, कपाले ॥ १४३ ॥
eka haste yena vipra-caraṇa pākhāle āra haste ḍhelā māre māthāya, kapāle || 143 ||
eka haste yena vipra-carana pakhale ara haste dhela mare mathaya, kapale (143)
English translation:
(143) Their worship is like someone who washes the feet of a brāhmaṇa with one hand and beats him on the head with his other hand.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
By becoming envious of living entities, one automatically becomes envious of Lord Viṣṇu, who is situated in their hearts. As it is inconsistant if a person hits the head of a brāhmaṇa with a stone with one hand and washes his feet with the other hand; similarly, if one worships Lord Viṣṇu but is indifferent to the worship of a Vaiṣṇava, who is nondifferent from Viṣṇu, then that worship becomes the source of misery.